Trump will bring about a new era of prosperity

Herzlos

So because the Indians/Chinese perform poorly in some fields, it's OK for the US to follow the race to the bottom instead of trying to lead by example?

Conrad

Herzlos wrote: »

Not really, he's hired a cabinet of billionaires (who presumably got to be rich by screwing over the normal guys), but he's not done anything yet to help the normal guys or boost jobs.

Incidentally, he seems to be assembling the absolute worst cabinet possible (people who thing gobal warming and vaccinations are scams).

He seems to just be hiring his buddies to roles rather than looking for anyone qualified. I mean, his son-in-law might be the best candidate for chief advisor, but what are the odds of that happening?

He's hiring the worlds best deal makers, people that know exactly how to create enterprise and jobs.


This is the new reality and the machine politician drippy left are going to look even more irrelevant as this enterprise revolution takes hold.

vivatifosi

Yesterday Trump said that the dollar was over valued for international trade, which triggered a fall against international currencies. This happened the same day as Theresa May released her plans, so the extent to which markets were moved by which part is hard to say.

One thing for sure, it's a different way of doing things. I can't stand the guy, but I can see that it would be good for the fly over states if he kick starts some regeneration. Time will tell.

wotsthat

vivatifosi wrote: »

Yesterday Trump said that the dollar was over valued for international trade, which triggered a fall against international currencies. This happened the same day as Theresa May released her plans, so the extent to which markets were moved by which part is hard to say.

One thing for sure, it's a different way of doing things. I can't stand the guy, but I can see that it would be good for the fly over states if he kick starts some regeneration. Time will tell.

He can move markets with a tweet right now but unless it's backed up with actions it'll eventually become white noise and people will tune out.

I'm hoping he sticks to Twitter and berating actresses who call him a fool - probably safest place for him.

kabayiri

Herzlos wrote: »

So because the Indians/Chinese perform poorly in some fields, it's OK for the US to follow the race to the bottom instead of trying to lead by example?

Basically, yes. The American voters knew what they were voting for. They still chose Trump. He didn't hide his views did he.

Conrad

Newsnight last night did a long piece which showed the great fear when Reagan became President Elect.
Posters and songs on his forthcoming nuclear war, Spitting Image played him as a total fool that had no vocabulary, the terrified liberal lemmings exasperated that a B movie actor was the most powerful man on the planet and on and on it went.

One of my first records was called Reaganomics, the lyrics portending great economic collapse and war.

Yet now the consensus is he was a good grandfather of the nation that ended the Cold War and bought down the Berlin Wall.

I urge all lemmings to stop for a moment and try and see beyond the liberal echo chamber.

It's good that he has no political experience, good that he's a businessman and will bring good jobs back and revive hope

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

kabayiri wrote: »

Basically, yes. The American voters knew what they were voting for. They still chose Trump. He didn't hide his views did he.

Well to be accurate almost 3 million more of them chose Hillary than chose Trump....

But I get what you're saying.

Conrad

The left gave us mass immigration and cared not about people's concerns. Trump will burn more fossil fuels and won't care when lefties bleat. See lefties, it's not nice being ignored.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Conrad wrote: »

The left gave us mass immigration and cared not about people's concerns. Trump will burn more fossil fuels and won't care when lefties bleat. See lefties, it's not nice being ignored.

Burning more fossil fuels is not a left or right issue - it's a humanity issue.

Now personally I don't buy into a lot of the hype about global warming - Yes climate change is happening and Yes it's happening faster than it otherwise would because of people burning too many fossil fuels - but this isn't really a huge issue as climate change makes some areas less hospitable to supporting life and other areas more hospitable to supporting life.

Historically this has always happened and humanity has dealt with it by simply migrating around the globe on a mass scale as required.

The problems caused by it are therefore relatively easy to address so long as a bunch of Neanderthals don't draw artificial lines in the mud and call the space between those lines a 'country' that they will 'fight for' to preserve their 'culture'.

Because if that happened.... well..... lets just say there aren't any Neanderthals left to explain why resisting mass migration is such a very bad idea.

CLAPTON

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Historically this has always happened and humanity has dealt with it by simply migrating around the globe on a mass scale as required.

The problems caused by it are therefore relatively easy to address so long as a bunch of Neanderthals don't draw artificial lines in the mud and call the space between those lines a 'country' that they will 'fight for' to preserve their 'culture'.

Because if that happened.... well..... lets just say there aren't any Neanderthals left to explain why resisting mass migration is such a very bad idea.

indeed we could look at a few examples of succesful mass migrations

the vikings into england
the hun into southern europe
the mongols into china and india and middle east
the europeans into the americas

the Neanderthals didn't resist mass migrations and so died out

in the grand scheme of things, mass killings are all part of the majestic sweep of the evolutionary process

however I prefer to consider the wealthfare of the peoples of the UK and wish for a long and decent life, even if Hamish is willing to accept annilhilation for the greater good


read some history